Basing his discussion on an earlier paper Dr. Charles J. Erasmus ("Community Development and the Encogido Syndrome"), the author argues that community development should be defined in a more restricted fashion than has been done; that the techniques and limitations of the community development worker should be more clearly recognized; that the necessity for the community development worker turning to technical experts for certain kinds of specialized help be admitted; that the community development worker accept the responsibility to organize the unorganized, to transfer the decision-making process to the community, and to leave when he has done this and not become a permanent fixture in the client community. Community development is not something which a worker does, but rather a process which a worker helps to bring about. To be successful community development must become an interdisciplinary approach not only in its implementation but also in its theoretical formulation. (MF)

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